Letters to the editor, March 15

I am afraid Ontario has been the loser over the past long 15 years of fiscal mismanagement by the Ontario Liberals, which now has an $8-billion deficit and has had $174 billion added to its debt. During this time, green-obsessed Liberals have harmed Ontarians with huge hydro bills, while driving numerous large companies from this have-not province, taking thousands of well-paying jobs with them. Foreign companies supplying highly subsidized wind turbines and solar panels have raked in tens of billions of our tax dollars.

While the public sector has been richly rewarded for its political support, Premier Wynne has hit the job-creating private sector with more regulations and taxes. Wynne has pushed the nanny state, costing us billions. Her latest vote-getting scheme — a huge hike to the minimum wage — resulted in 59,000 part-time job losses in January along with a rise in the cost to consumers as companies struggle to make ends meet. The Hydro rebate program to buy back voters disgruntled over ever-rising Hydro, will cost taxpayers an additional $4 billion.

If fiscal mismanagement by the Wynne Liberals is not enough to concentrate the minds of voters, then they should recall the scandals resulting in several lengthy police investigations. Scandal and fiscal mismanagement has been the Wynne government’s hallmark.

Yes, electing Doug Ford may to many seem like a gamble, but I doubt very much that any other party could do the harm to Ontario that the Wynne Liberals have foisted upon it. We know yet another Wynne government would mean even more reckless spending, pushing on an ideologically driven progressive agenda.

Larry Comeau

Ottawa

Protesters went too far

In the recent news articles written about the Jordan Peterson protest that took place at Queen’s University, it makes no mention of the assaults committed by the protesters leaving the lecture. Speaking for myself, I was struck across the head with a noise machine one of the protesters was spinning as she purposefully chose to follow me out of Grant Hall. It was met with cheers from all of the protesters around her. As a Queen’s student who also comes from a family of Kurdish refugees, I’m upset that these assaults, or at least mine, will go without notice.